April 2011 Revenue and Cost Results

The chart below shows an update of our daily revenue and loan. The horizontal line at $10.70 is our loan payment [we pay biweekly]. The individual points are the daily revenue [we get paid by Guelph Hydro bi-monthly].
My observations for April, or at least to 28 April, shows several things :

• a large scatter above and below our loan payment line, but the days where it is below $10,70 is not so dismally low as December and January
• the brightest day of April was the 15th which rivals the bright days in March. Even though the panels would have been a little warmer than in March, and the reflectance from the ground lower since the snow has melted, perhaps it is the longer day and higher sun that yielded more energy
• late April has been very cloudy and dismal here in Guelph, so revenue is on average lower than our costs
• final observation is that Chris Duke looks out his office window in April a lot and wishes for sunnier days. This has been wetter and cloudier April then other years [even the amount of fields with the corn sown is behind normal years]